WooCommerce to Shopify Migration · Durham
WooCommerce to Shopify Migration in Durham
Moving Durham retailers from WooCommerce to Shopify, where the export looks cleaner than the data actually is. Product information in WooCommerce is spread across flexible metadata written by whichever plugins were installed, so a standard export can appear complete while leaving behind fields the shop genuinely depends on.
Why this comes up
The problem
The product export imported successfully, and the custom fields three plugins were writing did not come with it.
What you get
What we deliver
- Plugin-written product data identified before any export is trusted
- Custom fields and attributes mapped to Shopify metafields deliberately
- Subscriptions and bookings assessed separately, since these live in plugins
- Products, variants and inventory migrated with images at full resolution
- Customers and order history transferred, with password resets communicated
- Redirects mapped for products, categories and any content pages
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what woocommerce to shopify migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- WordPress
- Metafields
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Retail
- Direct-to-consumer brands
- Food and drink
- Health and beauty
- Fashion and apparel
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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WooCommerce to Shopify Migration in Durham — common questions
- Why is the export misleading?
- Because WooCommerce stores product data as flexible metadata, and plugins add their own. A default export returns the core fields and omits whatever an extension was writing — which is often the size guide, the specification table or the field the shop filters on.
- What happens to subscriptions?
- They need their own plan. Recurring orders held by a WooCommerce plugin do not transfer as part of a product export, and moving live subscriptions involves both a data exercise and a payment one — customers may need to re-authorise their payment method.
- Where does custom data go on Shopify?
- Into metafields, and mapping them deliberately is the difference between a working shop and a thin one. Deciding which fields matter, and how they are displayed on the new theme, is a design decision rather than something an import tool can infer.
- What do we gain and lose?
- You stop being responsible for hosting, updates and security patching, which for many businesses is the entire motivation. What you lose is database-level control — anything that was solved with a snippet in the theme or a query against the tables now has to fit within what Shopify allows.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about WooCommerce to Shopify Migration in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise